商品簡介
In 1611, Scala published 50 scenarios in Rappresentative (The Theater of Tales for Performance); an earlier translation of some is incorrect and garbled, says Andrews (emeritus Italian, Leeds U.), so he offers 30 of them here. His commentary and analysis strives to demystify the genre for anglophones, showing that the improvisation was less spontaneously creative than is often thought, that the popular street comedy must be viewed in the context of published literary dramas, and that it ranged beyond the scurrilous farce it is best known for. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Richard Andrews is professor emeritus of Italian at Leeds University. He is the author of Scripts and Scenarios: The performance of comedy in Renaissance Italy (1993) and A Theatre of Community Memory: Tuscan Sharecropping and the Teatro Povero di Monticchiello (1998).
